Word: disembarked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swing through the South during the next week will be Barnaby's testing ground. Monday the Crimson will disembark in Charlottesville, North Carolina, to meet Davidson College, and the next day will take on North Carolina State. A jog north to Annapolis and from there to West Point will complete the vacation circuit...
...Bouc's solitary church bell struck six, the shrill blast of a ship's siren split the air. This was the deadline the British had set. If the 4,424 Palestine-barred Jews aboard three British prison ships in Port-de-Bouc's harbor failed to disembark, the British would order the ships to Germany...
...Secret Service sleuths cased the suburban railroad station at which the President was to disembark, spotted places where they would station guards. Along roads and streets where the President would ride (in an armored, bulletproof car shipped from Washington), the Secret Service men made notes on sharp turns, dangerous intersections, rough spots where cautious driving would be necessary. At Chateau Laurier, where the President would be an honor guest at a state luncheon, they interviewed the waiters. At Governor General Alexander's Rideau Hall, they even insisted on inspecting the rooms where the Trumans would sleep...
...first 4,000 homing servicemen to disembark at Halifax had complaints aplenty. They had been jampacked in the troop ship Louis Pasteur, had had only two meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions...
Starting the evening off right from the train station by greeting us with our names, these young misses really knew the trick to make the evening perfect. Bill Long, Tom Robinson, Dick Rowles, Bill Naddy and Rudy Moeller were among the first to disembark. Bill McCracken had a date with the class president which we hear was really more than he expected. Big time operator Tom Yedor proceeded to answer to several names and as a result ended up with Joe Washington's date among others as well as his own. This was the big opportunity for getting dates...